Iowa State University Alumni Association| online edition | spring 2008

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VISIONS
Editor: Carole Gieseke
Associate Editor: Kate Bruns
Photography: Jim Heemstra
Print Design: Designgrid, LLC
Web Design: Kate Bruns
Editorial Assistant: AshLea Anderson

VISIONS is published in January, April, July, and September for members of the Iowa State University Alumni Association, Fisher-Nickell Hall, 214 Richardson Court, Ames, Iowa 50011-1370 or e-mail alumni@iastate.edu. Copyright 2005 by the ISU Alumni Association, Jeffery W. Johnson, president and publisher.

IN THIS ISSUE

Cover Story | by Carole Gieseke
We're celebrating 20 years of VISIONS magazine with a look back at alumni publications through the years

Iowa State & the bioeconomy | By Mike Krapfl
Biorenewables research is a hot topic on today's campus

Voices
Excerpts from the sesquicentennial oral history project

Online bonus features:
Listen to archival interview with former ISU vice president Wayne Moore

Listen to archival interview with former ISU president Martin C. Jischke

Listen to archival interview with former director of ISU's African American studies program, Valerie Grim

Departments:
Getting Started | By Carole Gieseke
Happy birthday, VISIONS!

Letters
Letters to the Editor

Around Campus
Honoring Iowa State's war casualties...political bumper sticker research...the Morrill Act comes to campus

Association News
An update on the ISU Alumni Center...changes to the Wall of Alumni and Friends...new faces at the Alumni Association

Giving
Fundraising campaign impact reflected on Iowa State campus

Sports | By Kate Bruns
A century of memories, moments, and magic are captured in a new men's basketball video chronicle